quintessential
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That’s a quintessential example of an agency action that’s unlawfully arbitrary and capricious.
From Slate • Mar. 27, 2026
Whether that would deliver the quintessential university campus experience remains to be seen.
From BBC • Mar. 23, 2026
Her installation evokes what is perhaps the quintessential Angeleno celebration of spring: a shared picnic.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2026
But as Burton’s team writes in their clemency petition to Ivey, Burton’s case is an extreme outlier, “a quintessential case for the exercise of executive clemency.”
From Slate • Mar. 6, 2026
The debate behind the scenes had focused on Lawrence’s role as the quintessential pioneer of Big Science.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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